Re: Samba(SMB) or Netatalk(AFP)?

[Jussi Peltola]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:37:16PM +1100, Sunnz wrote:
> Oh, so you need to change the user id on the client computers to use
> NFS properly... that seems kind of like a hack... is that the usual
> way NFS is used? What if there are multiple accounts on the client
> that you like to share?
 
You use NIS/LDAP/... or just take care to make the uids match when first
creating the accounts. You can't move filesystems between unix machines
if the uids do not match, be they nfs or filesystems on disk.